Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, ca. 1500
MS H.5 fol. 27r

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Upper vignette:
Maccabees Seven: before Antiochus IV -- Antiochus, wearing crown, seated in thrown beneath canopy, extends hands toward three of Maccabees Seven and Salomona of Antioch (mother), wearing hat, right hand raised. Scene in room.
Lower vignette:
Maccabees Seven: Martyrdom (II Maccabees 07:04-05: Martyrdom of eldest of Maccabees Seven) -- Eldest of Maccabees Seven, nude, is flanked by two tormentors, wearing hats, who grasp his arms and extend knives (?) towards his mouth. Scene in front of buildings.
Caption between vignettes reads, A LA MERE ET A SES ENFANS VOULTE LE IUGE EN FAIRE MENGER. DE QUOY ILS FUIE(N)T RESSUSANS ET SE SOUSSRIRE(N)T OULTRAGER.
Margins decorated with floreate border, including violas, strawberries, and grapevines, and inhabited by bird and by hybrid man, wearing hood, with hands on pair of hand crutches.